Red Desert (Criterion)
The DVD debut of Michelangelo Antonioni's color debut is accompanied by two early Antonioni documentary shorts: his debut film «Gente del Po» (1947), a portrait of the hard loves of the people living on the Po River, and «N.U.» (1948), about the street cleaners of Rome.
The DVD debut of John Huston's sprawling, globetrotting 1970 espionage thriller The Kremlin Letter is also the debut release of Twilight Time, a new boutique DVD label (that's actual pressed DVDs, not DVD - R or MOD) featuring limited run releases of select titles from the 20th Century Fox library.
The DVD debut of Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, as has become a norm for recent Disney catalogue releases, features fine video and audio presentation of the film and absolutely nothing in the way of extras.
Paramount had included both Christmas Tales and the Whoopi Goldberg special as bonus features on the 2004
DVD debut of 2003's I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown.
My feature review of
the DVD debut of Stephen Frears» Gumshoe is now up at athe Turner Classic movies website.
THE DVD Reissued to capitalize on
the DVD debut of Jolie's Taking Lives, HBO's unrated edition of Gia is new to the format and runs approximately five minutes longer than the broadcast version familiar to owners of the previous disc.
Not exact matches
Because the frail Graham no longer has the strength to speak behind a lectern, his enduring message
of salvation through Jesus Christ came in the form
of «The Cross,» a 30 - minute
DVD that made its
debut at the celebration.
This month, Sheryl releases a deluxe two - disc edition
of her
debut album Tuesday Night Music Club, stuffed with goodies like a bonus
DVD, rarities, and B - sides.
Sixteen months after the blockbuster's
debut, director Todd Phillips has one
of this year's most anticipated movies in the forthcoming buddy road comedy Due Date, all three leads have moved past their vaguely familiar stage to a reasonable degree
of stardom, the savvily - greenlit The Hangover 2 has begun shooting, and Warner Home Video has just reissued the film in Extreme Edition
DVD and Blu - ray sets.
Arrives on
DVD on the heels
of its American
debut on Masterpiece Classic.
Wildcard Films Distribution has today announced the
DVD and On - Demand release
of director Adam Wimpenny's directorial
debut Blackwood, a reworking
of the classic British Ghost Story, which stars Ed Stoppard (The Pianist), Sophia Myles (Hallam Foe), Paul Kaye (Dracula Untold), Russell Tovey (Him & Her) and Greg Wise (Effie Gray).
Jellyfish Eyes (Criterion, Blu - ray,
DVD), the
debut feature from visual artist Takashi Murakami, is a fantasy
of childhood innocence and fantastical creatures come to life as playmates in a post-Fukushima world.
Also available on September 28, WDSHE is proud to
debut one
of the funniest
DVD comedy collections ever with Scrubs: The Complete Collection.
Enter to win a
DVD of William H. Macy's directorial
debut «Rudderless» starring Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Selena Gomez and Laurence Fishburnes.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment is using the September 17 release date to co-promote the
debut of NBC's Grimm: Season 2 alongside A&E's Bates Motel: Season 1 on Blu - ray and
DVD.
This week, the longer and, by most accounts, weaker cut hit home video with Image Entertainment's
DVD and Blu - ray
debut of «The Witches
of Oz.»
Darby O'Gill and the Little People is one
of Disney's better films and this long - awaited Region 1
DVD debut does not disappoint.
DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Assistant DA Admits to Killing in Self - Defense in Unoriginal Whodunit Based on the
debut novel
of the same name by Euro - Filipina Sabina Murray, Slow Burn is an intriguing whodunit about a big city Assistant DA, Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock), who admits that she's just confessed to killing a man (Mekhi Phifer) she claims raped her.
Compounding that bad decision is the final downside to this release, that for Fox a Blu - ray combo pack
debut is reason to discontinue all
DVD editions, effectively making that documentary rare and all other extras (besides the trailer) unplayable to
DVD viewers who don't already own one
of the movie's packed past editions and don't wish to bother with the secondhand market.
THE
DVD One
of six films that won the second round
of Amazon's
DVD Decision 2006, Looker
debuts on the format in a handsome 2.37:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that occasionally succumbs to pinholes and a high density
of grain.
The TRANSFORMERS: Revenge
of the Fallen Blu - ray and
DVD debut will be supported by one
of the largest marketing and promotional campaigns in Paramount Home Entertainment's history.
Making its
debut in 3 - D, obviously, «The Nightmare Before Christmas» arrives in a three - disc set that one imagines will be difficult to ever top for home video customers, despite the previous iterations
of the film on
DVD.
Say Anything... has also just made its
DVD debut in the US this month, and reviews
of that disc are full
of praise for the new 16:9 anamorphic video transfer that's been done
of the film under the director's supervision, making mention
of its detail, sharpness, colour saturation and perfect black levels.
Over at ShockYa, for my latest
DVD / Blu - ray column, I take a look at X-Men: First Class and January Jones» ample cleavage, full - season sets
of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Glee, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the Blu - ray
debut of the Coen brothers» Blood Simple, a documentary on the United States» rather tortured relationship with Cuba, and more.
August, 2012, marks the 20th anniversary
of the
debut of «The Larry Sanders Show,» episodes
of which are available on Netflix Instant, Amazon Instant, iTunes, and
DVD.
The film has won the Prize
of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for the festival's Palm d'Or Cannes and now it's making its
DVD and Blu - ray
debut March 12.
Josh Trank's superhero flick «Chronicle» hits
DVD and Blu - ray today and in honor
of the home video
debut, MTV has posted the test footage Trank shot to get the film made.
This week on home video, superheroes take on the Cold War
of the sixties in «X-Men: First Class,» Brian De Palma's modern gangster classic «Scarface»
debuts on Blu - ray and over a dozen TV shows from last season — from «Fringe» to «The Good Wife» to Steve Carell's farewell season
of «The Office» — roll out on
DVD just before the new Fall Season launches.
DVD Review by Kam Williams Reverential Rockumentary Revisits Career
of Late Rock Icon Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) is best remembered as the front man and lead guitarist
of the Mothers
of Invention, the avant - garde rock band that started developing a dedicated cult following in 1966 with the release
of its
debut album, «Freak Out!»
For the Blu - ray
debut of «Snatch,» Sony has brought over most
of the bonus features from the two - disc special edition
DVD — including an audio commentary with director Guy Ritchie and producer Matthew Vaughn, deleted scenes, and a making -
of featurette — as well as some exclusive extras found only on BD - Live.
Two weeks after Gleeson's Golden Globe nomination was announced and two weeks before he loses the award probably to The Artist's Jean Dujardin, The Guard makes its U.S. home video
debut on Tuesday on a separate
DVD and Blu - ray, the latter
of which we review here.
Even at a time when sales
of catalog titles on physical media appear to be the slowest they've been since the advent
of DVD, you can't question the wisdom
of Universal Studios Home Entertainment revisiting this perennial bestseller once more, this time in a remastered 30th Anniversary Edition Blu - ray + Digital HD release five years after its Blu - ray
debut.
The focal point
of the
DVD's cover art, both in the movie's 2005 home video
debut from Buena Vista Home Entertainment and in next week's reissue from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, the new distributor
of lesser Miramax titles, is Paul Rudd, who plays the medium - sized but memorable role
of Jimmy Rusoff, Angie's boyfriend from the other side
of the tracks.
This week, Criterion brings out editions
of four of the greatest, most beautiful and most resonant films every made in newly remastered DVD editions and Blu - ray debuts: Three Colors: Blue White Red, the great trilogy from Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Gam
of four
of the greatest, most beautiful and most resonant films every made in newly remastered DVD editions and Blu - ray debuts: Three Colors: Blue White Red, the great trilogy from Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Gam
of the greatest, most beautiful and most resonant films every made in newly remastered
DVD editions and Blu - ray
debuts: Three Colors: Blue White Red, the great trilogy from Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Jean Renoir's The Rules
Of The Gam
Of The Game.
The disc quality
of this long - awaited
DVD debut, however, is appalling.
Also new on
DVD: ExTerminators (Image) with Heather Graham, Mirrors 2 (Fox), which features the U.S.
debut of the original 2003 South Korean film Into the Mirror as an extra, and Bangkok Adrenaline (Image).
Unavailable on home video (one was released over twenty years ago on a long defunct video label, almost impossible to find even before the launch
of DVD), they have developed a cult status over the years and make their
DVD debut on the Warner Archive Collection, the no - frills, burn - on - demand service exclusively on the Warner website (Genesis II is here and Planet Earth is here).
The eight features in this box set, on four two - sided flipper discs in four thinpak cases, collect many
of his best films, two
of them making their
DVD debut here.
That worked to the film's advantage because it ended up making its
DVD debut in August 2002 (smack in the middle
of Disney's few years
of comprehensive
DVD editions) as a robust 2 - disc Collector's Edition alongside one for Pulp Fiction.
Dillinger (Arrow, Blu - ray +
DVD), the 1973 gangster film and directorial
debut of John Milius, plays on that image
of the gentleman gangster who courted the public and the press while he robbed banks across the American Midwest.
Featuring Yancy Bulter
of As the World Turns and Kickass fame, Shark Week
debuts on Blu - ray ™,
DVD and On Demand August 28.
Home Video Notes: Pitch Perfect 2 Release Date: 22 September 2015 Pitch Perfect 2 releases to home video (Blu - ray /
DVD / Digital Copy) with the following extras: - Never Before Seen Treblemakers Performance - The Making
of the Riff - Off - Das Sound Machine Finale Breakdown - Snoop in the House - Green Bay Rap - Line - Aca-Rama - The World Championships
of A Cappella - An Aca - Love Story: Bumper and Fat Amy - Elizabeth Banks» Directorial
Debut - Legacy: Hailee Steinfeld - Aca - Camp - Residual Heat Internship Universal Pictures is also releasing on the same day, Pitch Perfect Aca - Amazing 2 Movie Set — a package including Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2.
Blood Simple (Criterion, Blu - ray,
DVD), the assured 1984
debut feature from Joel and Ethan Coen, essentially created the neo-noir aesthetic
of the late eighties.
A year after reissuing it on
DVD in an apparently barebones platter, Echo Bridge gave the film its Blu - ray
debut, initially as a Best Buy exclusive in January but one that moves to general retail on the first Tuesday
of May.
The Blu - ray
debut features the commentary track recorded by Carpenter for the original
DVD release and the vintage promotional featurette «The Making
of John Carpenter's Vampires,» plus the trademark isolated score audio track and booklet with an essay by Julie Kirgo.
BLU - RAY &
DVD FEATURES Gotham: 2016 Comic - Con Panel Madness Rising: the New Villains
of Gotham The Dark Within the Dark: The Court
of Owls Ben McKenzie Directorial
Debut Deleted Scenes
And Sergei Paradjanov's
debut feature Shadows
of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) makes its
DVD debut this week, available as a single - disc special edition or in a box set with the director's other three feature films.
The home video
debut of «Ponyo» inspired new two - disc special edition
DVD versions
of Miyazaki's «My Neighbor Totoro,» «Castle in the Sky» and «Kiki's Delivery Service.»
CLOSING THOUGHTS Disney's long - awaited
DVD debut for Third Man on the Mountain should satisfy known fans
of this old - fashioned adventure.
So this year I missed two
of the most celebrated TV on disc releases
of the year: the decades - in - the - making Batman: The Complete Television Series (Warner, Blu - ray,
DVD, Digital HD) and the Blu - ray
debut of Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery (Paramount, Blu - ray).